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Crowsbeak posted:So by anything published they mean anything right? Even say rules for a table top game? Obviously, anything player-created doesn't count. Other than that, yes. The stuff in the RPGs are canon. In fact, before the publication of the Thrawn Trilogy, the biggest source of Star Wars canon outside of the film came from the table top RPGs published by West End Games in the 80s. A lot of EU material after that referenced things that were established in those games. In many ways, West End created the old EU. quote:http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Roleplaying_Game quote:http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/West_End_Games
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Ensign_Ricky posted:It gets better. Man Star Wars used to be so rad
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VirtualStranger posted:Obviously, anything player-created doesn't count. Other than that, yes. The stuff in the RPGs are canon. He said rules, not background material.
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I'm curious if they are going to use Thrawn in the new canon. That's the only thing from the expanded universe (except for KOTOR stuff) that I actually know of and from what I understand so does that go for a lot of people. e; oh, I guess I've managed to pick up that Chewbacca died fighting a moon or something as well Kainser fucked around with this message at 19:52 on May 11, 2015 |
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Kainser posted:e; oh, I guess I've managed to pick up that Chewbacca died fighting a moon or something as well He got a moon dropped on him. Just to make extra sure he's dead.
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Kainser posted:I'm curious if they are going to use Thrawn in the new canon. That's the only thing from the expanded universe (except for KOTOR stuff) that I actually know of and from what I understand so does that go for a lot of people. God I hope not. The thrawn trilogy didn't age well. It was the best poo poo ever to my teenaged star wars deprived mind, but I've tried to read it again in my 30's and was just offput with how awful it all was. I mean c'mon, adding an additional vowel to a name to denote he's a clone? Right up there with studying the mona lisa and learning how to invade europe I guess.
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Darth Vader #5 is out today.
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I love the art in this issue. Lots of full pages and spreads. I have NO loving clue what's coming next in this story.
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It's been said before, but Gillen should be commended for making Darth Vader still come across as a formidable badass while still capturing how pathetic he and his lot in life are
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Gillen is a top tier writer and he is murdering it with Darth Vader.
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VirtualStranger posted:Darth Vader #5 is out today. Instead of just posting when a comic comes out, maybe tell us something about it or what you think about it or something.
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I actually just appreciate knowing a new one has come out. I read their post and went to my local store.
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I think I missed an issue; who is the guy with the cyborg eye? was his crew machines as well and that's why Vader said they had nothing to do with the Force?
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radlum posted:I think I missed an issue; who is the guy with the cyborg eye? was his crew machines as well and that's why Vader said they had nothing to do with the Force? I think that's a Rodian eye and he's the guy, or the clone of the guy, that 000 tortured to death last issue.
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He's a mad scientist that Palpatine hired to see if he could make better agents than Vader using technology in place of the force. This is fifth clone, because they tortured his fourth clone to death. This is the same writer who does Uber, so I'm interested to see just how thoroughly Vader crushes these guys.
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SW #5 out today. Aaron is nailing the characterization of the big three and it's nice to see Boba Fett back to being just plain old bad guy rather than an anti-hero with complicated motivations.
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One thing I noticed about both SW and DV is that they both make heavy use of "widescreen" panels. In Darth Vader especially, at least half the pages are just a simple sequence of evenly-spaced rectangular panels that stretch nearly the entire width of the page. Star Wars also does this too, but to a slightly lesser extent. I think this is supposed to give off a very "cinematic" feel, almost as if someone took a sequence of still images from a film reel and laid them out evenly on the page. Here are two pages from Darth Vader #1   And two pages from Star Wars #4  
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For comparison, here are production storyboards from the movies Spartacus, Blade Runner, and Inception  
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that's actually pretty cool
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I wonder if they're not also doing that to make them easier to read for new comic readers.
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I got Unlimited today to read some of the newer stuff but noticed there was a Legacy volume that I never got to. That was really nice. I remember in like 2007 people dogged on Legacy and it probably deserved it but it really grew into itself in the second half of the first volume and was a pretty good ride from that point forward. And I really enjoyed that last volume. They really rushed past some stuff but you could tell they didn't have a ton of time to tell the story. It was a nice way to provide closure to the era and in a lot of ways was a sort of "best of" many of the better tropes that Dark Horse had. And closure just isn't something you usually get in comics.
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Blockhouse posted:that's actually pretty cool It's also very much the style of the artists. Like, Cassaday to some extent and Larroca a whole lot have both gone really far in that cinematic sort of presentation.
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So...uh...that payoff from Star Wars #6 and Vader #6. Holy. poo poo.
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I really, really loved how they tied that scene together from 2 different points of view, with 2 different artist's interpretations. Brilliant move releasing both on the same day.
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Carteret posted:I really, really loved how they tied that scene together from 2 different points of view, with 2 different artist's interpretations. That and it was loving chilling. edit: You could seriously feel the absolute rage radiating off Vader as he called Palpatine. edit2: The Han's wife reveal was pretty awesome too. Ensign_Ricky fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Ensign_Ricky posted:That and it was loving chilling. I'm waiting for the ex-wife zing or some poo poo on the last one. I'm so glad I'm a hopeless fan for this stuff, because there have been some good moments in the series' so far, and some of the dialog just feels cinematic.
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Yeah, Vader #6 and SW #6 might be the best non-OT Star Wars thing I've ever seen.
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...This means both X-Wing and TIE Fighter have been tossed. That's a shame. Wasn't it TIE Fighter that gave Coruscant it's name?
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There is so much I want to talk about that is sweet in these issues, but it would just end up as a wall of spoiler text. Like how they dodged a bullet by having using the flash grenade, so 1) Luke never actually sees Boba Fett, and 2) we get a call back to the only real jedi training Luke got with the remotes and the blast sheild.
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Bloodly posted:...This means both X-Wing and TIE Fighter have been tossed. Did the comics contradict them? That sucks.  (Anything EU that hasn't been explicitly contradicted can be brought back, I think. I know a decent chunk of EU ships from the prequel era are still canon because of Clone Wars, for example.)
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Bloodly posted:That's a shame. Wasn't it TIE Fighter that gave Coruscant it's name? I think that was Timothy Zahn.
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Bloodly posted:...This means both X-Wing and TIE Fighter have been tossed. Nah, that was the Zahn books. What's the awesome thing that happened in the comics? I crave spoilers
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General Battuta posted:Nah, that was the Zahn books. In both SW #6 and DV #6: Vader learns who destroyed the Death Star and is naturally very angry that the Emperor lied to him about Padme's death
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Endless Mike posted:In SW #6: We learn Han Solo has a wife/ex-wife who's not terribly happy with him understatement of the year.
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General Battuta posted:What's the awesome thing that happened in the comics? I crave spoilers I think it's safe to share this now.      edit: And that is why you should be reading it. Ensign_Ricky fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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Rage is always better portrayed when it is silent. That is basically the last scene of the prequels except for a lack of "NOOOOOooooOOOOooOOOooOOoooo!" Though I am suddenly imagining Bobba Fett not making it all the way out of the room and getting tossed through the door face first by the Force then trying to play it off like nothing happened. SirDan3k fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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I was about to go down to my local comic store and pick up all the back issues of these series' and then figure out a way to get the rest shipped to me at home. Whats the best way to get these through subscription? Should I just use the marvel bundle here? http://subscriptions.marvel.com/store/combo.asp?cb=9 Or is there another option I'm not aware of? Thanks. P.S. I'm sorry if this info is somewhere else but I noticed that right from the get go you guys like to post images and talk about the comics and I don't want spoilers.
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SirDan3k posted:Rage is always better portrayed when it is silent. That is basically the last scene of the prequels except for a lack of "NOOOOOooooOOOOooOOOooOOoooo!" It's basically what the last scene of RotS should have been. 
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I really like the page that has Vader thinking back on Padme, the Death Star Trench, and his fight with Luke in the Star Wars comic, and ends with Vader simply saying, "I have a son". Just that one panel of dawning realization, and the feeling of weight from that one spoken line was awesome to me.
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enigmahfc posted:I really like the page that has Vader thinking back on Padme, the Death Star Trench, and his fight with Luke in the Star Wars comic, and ends with Vader simply saying, "I have a son". Just that one panel of dawning realization, and the feeling of weight from that one spoken line was awesome to me. Star Wars is awesome again.
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